English: Bull-man protecting a palmtree, female(?) deity (partially destroyed, reconstructed), panel of molded bricks. Terracotta, middle 12th century BC. Found at the Tell of the Apadana in Susa.
The inscription running along the central band record that Shilhak-Inshushinak made a statue of brick for the exterior chapel of Inshushinak.
Français : Homme-taureau protégeant un palmier, déesse(?). Panneau de briques moulées, terre cuite, milieu du XIIe siècle av. J.-C. Trouvé à Suse, dans le tell de l'Apadana (salle d'audience).
Department of Oriental Antiquities, Sully, ground floor, room 10
Accession number
Sb 14390 & Sb 14391
Credit line
Excavated by Roland de Mecquenem, 1913–1921.
References
Prudence Oliver Harper, Joan Aruz, Françoise Tallon, The royal city of Susa: ancient Near Eastern treasures in the Louvre, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992, ISBN9780810964228, p. 282.
Daniel T. Potts, The archaeology of Elam: formation and transformation of an ancient Iranian state, World Archaeology Series, Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN9780521564960, p. 240.
Source/Photographer
undated photograph (after 1949) of a 12th century BC relief
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